Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
Any sufficiently well-documented lisp program contains an ML program in its comments.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis